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dishonourabledishonorable

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 1,408 times in 854 works
Consistency: 96.7% (1,408 of 1,455)
Reach if approved: ~1,530 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: dishonourable
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,456 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,408 changes in 854 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,408)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… ſtand much upon your immunities, thinke with your ſelves, how baſe, how poore, how diſhonourabledishonorable, how ſlaviſh a life you are like to lead under Paganiſh enemies, who will …
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… ſtand much upon your immunities, thinke with your ſelves, how baſe, how poore, how diſhonourabledishonorable, how ſlaviſh a life you are like to lead under Paganiſh enemies, who will …
Thomas Barnes · An Alarm to War · p. 18 · Open in the reader
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… It never wrongs any, but rather ſuffers, covers and palliates multitudes of undeſerved and diſhonourabledishonorable injuries. From all this that hath beene ſpoken may wee learne eaſily to confute …
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… It never wrongs any, but rather ſuffers, covers and palliates multitudes of undeſerved and diſhonourabledishonorable injuries. From all this that hath beene ſpoken may wee learne eaſily to confute …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… favour unto Players, and in setting forward their lewd…esse, out of a blinde dishonourabledishonorable bounty, put themselves not so much to wonderfull, as to miserable expenses: and among …
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… favour unto Players, and in setting forward their lewd…esse, out of a blinde dishonourabledishonorable bounty, put themselves not so much to wonderfull, as to miserable expenses: and among …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
Vers. 3. none to bury] which is a thing most dishonourabledishonorable, Eccl. 6. 3. Cōpare herewith, Rev. 11. 2, 9.
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Vers. 3. none to bury] which is a thing most dishonourabledishonorable, Eccl. 6. 3. Cōpare herewith, Rev. 11. 2, 9.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and would not bee delivered, (Heb. 11. 35.) wilt thou save thy selfe with base and dishonourabledishonorable conditions which they refused?
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… and would not bee delivered, (Heb. 11. 35.) wilt thou save thy selfe with base and dishonourabledishonorable conditions which they refused?
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 632 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of buriall, the addition of the other intimateth unto us that which is more dishonourabledishonorable in it. Thus under the buriall of our Saviour may be comprehended his foreign and …
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… of buriall, the addition of the other intimateth unto us that which is more dishonourabledishonorable in it. Thus under the buriall of our Saviour may be comprehended his foreign and …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 310 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christians that passed this way; yet they used them most kindly, and disdained all dishonourabledishonorable suspicions. True it is, at the first voyage, King Coloman, not out of crueltie …
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… Christians that passed this way; yet they used them most kindly, and disdained all dishonourabledishonorable suspicions. True it is, at the first voyage, King Coloman, not out of crueltie …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… naturall helpes or props; there is no vſe of meat, apparell, ſleepe, beds, ) of diſhonourabledishonorable, glorious, like (in its meaſure) to the body of Chriſt which is the ſtandard …
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… naturall helpes or props; there is no vſe of meat, apparell, ſleepe, beds, ) of diſhonourabledishonorable, glorious, like (in its meaſure) to the body of Chriſt which is the ſtandard …
Robert Harris · Samuels Funeral · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (47)

29 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 28 are listed here. 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abrahams Trial A20718

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… childe: for euen the brute beasts themselues doe loue and cherish their owne broode. DishonourableDishonorable to God, as though hee delighted in such cruell and vnnaturall sacrifices, or as …
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… childe: for euen the brute beasts themselues doe loue and cherish their owne broode. DishonourableDishonorable to God, as though hee delighted in such cruell and vnnaturall sacrifices, or as …
George Downame · Abrahams Trial · p. 43 · Open in the reader

A Saint or a Brute A27016

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… able to make good the grounds of this reproof, and that Holineſs is no DiſhonourableDishonorable thing.
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… able to make good the grounds of this reproof, and that Holineſs is no DiſhonourableDishonorable thing.
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 237 · Open in the reader

A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes A34666

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… dung to rot and ſtink upon the face of the earth, a thing, y… DiſhonourableDishonorable to the dead; 2. Loathſome to the living, Pſal. 83.10. 2 Kings 9.38, 37. Jer. 21, 18, 19. Secondly, leaveth the body …
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… dung to rot and ſtink upon the face of the earth, a thing, y… DiſhonourableDishonorable to the dead; 2. Loathſome to the living, Pſal. 83.10. 2 Kings 9.38, 37. Jer. 21, 18, 19. Secondly, leaveth the body …
John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes · p. 108 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

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… them both; now if the Lord be God, ſerve him. Satan's Service is Baſe, DiſhonourableDishonorable, Slaviſh; the Service of God, Freedom, Honour, Life and Peace: there is indeed no …
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… them both; now if the Lord be God, ſerve him. Satan's Service is Baſe, DiſhonourableDishonorable, Slaviſh; the Service of God, Freedom, Honour, Life and Peace: there is indeed no …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 170 · Open in the reader

The Right Use of The Name of God in Prayer A44689

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… to be deeply concern'd, how he is thought and spoken of in the world. DishonourableDishonorable reflections upon him are therefore as a sword in their bones. What cannot hurt …
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… to be deeply concern'd, how he is thought and spoken of in the world. DishonourableDishonorable reflections upon him are therefore as a sword in their bones. What cannot hurt …
John Howe · The Right Use of The Name of God in Prayer · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Of Christian Communion A47305

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… speak softly of destructive Courses, or represent any ungodly Ways or Things, as less DishonourableDishonorable and Offensive to God, or as less Dangerous to Souls, than in the End …
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… speak softly of destructive Courses, or represent any ungodly Ways or Things, as less DishonourableDishonorable and Offensive to God, or as less Dangerous to Souls, than in the End …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · Open in the reader
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… the Mistakes of Men, in these Points, both more Dangerous to themselves, and more DishonourableDishonorable to Religion. For being so generally known, or easy of Knowledge: There is not …
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… the Mistakes of Men, in these Points, both more Dangerous to themselves, and more DishonourableDishonorable to Religion. For being so generally known, or easy of Knowledge: There is not …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Of Christian Prudence A47306

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… break his o… selves, in the asserting of our own Rights. Now … is Highly DishonourableDishonorable to God and Religio… This Different sense, of what concerns him an… us, shews …
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… break his o… selves, in the asserting of our own Rights. Now … is Highly DishonourableDishonorable to God and Religio… This Different sense, of what concerns him an… us, shews …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Prudence · p. 54 · Open in the reader

The Art of Logic and Rhetoric A49581

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… Profitable, or Unprofitable. To the Iudiciall, Iust, or Unjust. To the Demonstrative, Honourable, or DishonourableDishonorable.
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… Profitable, or Unprofitable. To the Iudiciall, Iust, or Unjust. To the Demonstrative, Honourable, or DishonourableDishonorable.
Petrus Ramus · The Art of Logic and Rhetoric · p. 141 · Open in the reader
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… common opinions that men have concerning Profitable and Unprofitable; Iust and Vnjust, Honourable and DishonourableDishonorable; which are the points in the severall kinds of Orations questionable. For as in …
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… common opinions that men have concerning Profitable and Unprofitable; Iust and Vnjust, Honourable and DishonourableDishonorable; which are the points in the severall kinds of Orations questionable. For as in …
Petrus Ramus · The Art of Logic and Rhetoric · p. 142 · Open in the reader
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… not possible: and because there be degrees of Profitable, Unprofitable, Iust, Unjust, Honourable, and DishonourableDishonorable; an Orator must be ready in other Principles; namely, of what is done and …
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… not possible: and because there be degrees of Profitable, Unprofitable, Iust, Unjust, Honourable, and DishonourableDishonorable; an Orator must be ready in other Principles; namely, of what is done and …
Petrus Ramus · The Art of Logic and Rhetoric · p. 142 · Open in the reader
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CAP. 9. Of the Colours of Honourable and DishonourableDishonorable.
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CAP. 9. Of the Colours of Honourable and DishonourableDishonorable.
Petrus Ramus · The Art of Logic and Rhetoric · p. 158 · Open in the reader
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… or Dispraise; the proofs are to be drawn from the Elements of Honourable, and DishonourableDishonorable.
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… or Dispraise; the proofs are to be drawn from the Elements of Honourable, and DishonourableDishonorable.
Petrus Ramus · The Art of Logic and Rhetoric · p. 158 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… Honourable Courtier had not put his Mouth out of taſte for ſo long a DiſhonourableDishonorable Countrey Life: But a good Heart is taught to condeſcend to all conditions, and …
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… Honourable Courtier had not put his Mouth out of taſte for ſo long a DiſhonourableDishonorable Countrey Life: But a good Heart is taught to condeſcend to all conditions, and …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 434 · Open in the reader
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… Dying by the Hands of a Boy; which, as it was more Ignominious and DiſhonourableDishonorable to Die by ſuch an Hand, ſo it would put them to more torment …
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… Dying by the Hands of a Boy; which, as it was more Ignominious and DiſhonourableDishonorable to Die by ſuch an Hand, ſo it would put them to more torment …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 121 · Open in the reader
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… Parts,] ver. 9. God wrote their Sin upon their Puniſhment. He Plagued them in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God …
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… Parts,] ver. 9. God wrote their Sin upon their Puniſhment. He Plagued them in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 228 · Open in the reader
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… Puniſhment. He Plagued them in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God paid their Poſteriours, as Auſtere Maſters do their …
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… Puniſhment. He Plagued them in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God paid their Poſteriours, as Auſtere Maſters do their …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 228 · Open in the reader
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… in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God paid their Poſteriours, as Auſtere Maſters do their dull Puny-boys.
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… in their DiſhonourableDishonorable Parts, for placing his Ark in a DiſhonourableDishonorable place, by their DiſhonourableDishonorable Dagon: God paid their Poſteriours, as Auſtere Maſters do their dull Puny-boys.
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 228 · Open in the reader

Sermon 15 November 1697 A60152

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… whether there be any thing that you unite for, that is in it ſelf DiſhonourableDishonorable: And if there be not, your inward Peace, by the Teſtimony of a good …
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… whether there be any thing that you unite for, that is in it ſelf DiſhonourableDishonorable: And if there be not, your inward Peace, by the Teſtimony of a good …
John Shower · Sermon 15 November 1697 · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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1. DiſhonourableDishonorable both to God and our ſelves.
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1. DiſhonourableDishonorable both to God and our ſelves.
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 78 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Psalm 18:23 A65936

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… tho' not your beloved ones) but if they be prevailing ones, they are very DiſhonourableDishonorable to God, uncomfortable, and prejudicial both to your ſelves and others. Pray you may …
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… tho' not your beloved ones) but if they be prevailing ones, they are very DiſhonourableDishonorable to God, uncomfortable, and prejudicial both to your ſelves and others. Pray you may …
John Whitlock · Sermons on Psalm 18:23 · p. 40 · Open in the reader

Man Made Righteousness by Christs Obedience A66352

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… Essential Glory of the Son of God. 2. He describes the Fall of Man very DishonourableDishonorable to God. 3. He much mistakes - what is most properly the Glory of God. 4. He …
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… Essential Glory of the Son of God. 2. He describes the Fall of Man very DishonourableDishonorable to God. 3. He much mistakes - what is most properly the Glory of God. 4. He …
Daniel Williams · Man Made Righteousness by Christs Obedience · p. 208 · Open in the reader

The Abuse of Gods Grace A79826

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… doth he abuſe his hopes by living like a ſcullion, and conſorting with beggars: DiſhonourableDishonorable imployments are below Royal ſtate. Many hope to wear the white robes of glory …
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… doth he abuſe his hopes by living like a ſcullion, and conſorting with beggars: DiſhonourableDishonorable imployments are below Royal ſtate. Many hope to wear the white robes of glory …
Nicholas Clagett · The Abuse of Gods Grace · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jude A87554

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… perſon runs downe the hill and cannot ſtop his courſe in ſin. 5. It's a DiſhonourableDishonorable ſin to be the body; and 1 Cor. 6.18. peculiarly ſaid to be againſt the body …
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… perſon runs downe the hill and cannot ſtop his courſe in ſin. 5. It's a DiſhonourableDishonorable ſin to be the body; and 1 Cor. 6.18. peculiarly ſaid to be againſt the body …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude · p. 564 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Quarrel Espoused N01398

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This is very DiſhonourableDishonorable, and alſo a very Unreaſonable Incroachment upon the Officers and Government of the Churches.
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This is very DiſhonourableDishonorable, and alſo a very Unreaſonable Incroachment upon the Officers and Government of the Churches.
John Wise · The Churchs Quarrel Espoused · p. 68 · Open in the reader

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

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3. THE avoiding of a DiſhonourableDishonorable or Cruel Death. When Men know their Death is deſigned, and they expect to …
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3. THE avoiding of a DiſhonourableDishonorable or Cruel Death. When Men know their Death is deſigned, and they expect to …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 664 · Open in the reader
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… without Warrant) from the Poſt in which God hath ſet him, which is highly DiſhonourableDishonorable to his Lord; and leaves a juſt Note of Infamy upon his own Name …
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… without Warrant) from the Poſt in which God hath ſet him, which is highly DiſhonourableDishonorable to his Lord; and leaves a juſt Note of Infamy upon his own Name …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 664 · Open in the reader
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… Corroborate in us the Hatred of this Luſt, looking upon it as Vile, Bruitiſh, DiſhonourableDishonorable; and that which procure the Wrath of God, and ſhut us out of the …
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… Corroborate in us the Hatred of this Luſt, looking upon it as Vile, Bruitiſh, DiſhonourableDishonorable; and that which procure the Wrath of God, and ſhut us out of the …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 671 · Open in the reader